The average price per m² in Le Haut-Bréda is 2 200 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 19 transactions are recorded each year.
Atmospheric illustration of Le Haut-Bréda, a mountain municipality of the Bréda valley, at the centre of the Belledonne range, in Isère.
The average price recorded in Le Haut-Bréda stands at 2 200 €/m². This average brings together the sales of houses and chalets that make up most of the market in this mountain municipality, as well as the few apartments in developments linked to ski tourism. The gaps around this figure come from the type of property, its floor area, its condition, its altitude and its proximity to the Sept Laux resort or to the historic hamlets of La Ferrière and Pinsot. The small number of sales recorded each year in the municipality, around twenty, makes the average more sensitive to the individual features of each property than in a denser town. These figures come from the DVF database (the French record of notarised property sales), which lists the sales actually signed before notaries, and give a municipal benchmark to refine property by property.
Prices from the DVF file (Demandes de valeurs foncières, published by the DGFiP), transactions actually recorded at the notary at municipality level. Cross-referenced with the Notaires de France - INSEE indices. Learn more about our methodology.
The Haut-Bréda market rests on its status as a mountain municipality of the Belledonne range, backed by the Le Pleynet ski resort and the Sept Laux area. Demand comes both from permanent residents attached to the Bréda valley and from second-home buyers coming for mountain activities, skiing in winter and hiking in summer. The industrial heritage of the valley, around the former mining sites and the museum of Forges and Mills in Pinsot, contributes to the identity of the municipality without weighing directly on prices. Demand focuses mainly on houses and chalets, which make up most of the housing stock.
Supply remains limited by the modest size of the municipality and by land constrained between the slopes of the Belledonne range and the valley floor. The low volume of sales recorded each year, around twenty transactions, makes the market sensitive to the individual features of each property rather than to a mass trend. Buyers weigh up altitude, proximity to the Le Pleynet resort and the aspect of the plot, decisive criteria in a mountain valley. The presence of higher-standard chalets, close to the lifts, occasionally pulls certain sales above the municipal average.
At the head of the Bréda valley, in the Belledonne range, Le Haut-Bréda sits above Allevard, but behind Les Adrets and Pontcharra, which are more highly rated.
The name La Ferrière, one of the two villages that today make up Le Haut-Bréda, comes from the Latin ferraria, the iron mine or forge. A charter of the abbey of Domène mentions as early as 1090 a settlement called burgo ferrarias, proof that the valley's inhabitants worked iron ore from at least the 11th century. Iron, extracted on the heights of the Belledonne range, was long worked by hand before feeding the forges of the Allevard ironmasters, then being industrialised from the 17th century. The other village, Pinsot, drew its activity from the same ore and from the power of the Bréda, the river that turned mills and forge hammers at the bottom of this glacial valley wedged between the summits of the range.
The industrial heritage of the valley is still visible in Pinsot, where the museum of Forges and Mills occupies the village's former communal mill. There you find a flour mill, a walnut oil mill, a sawmill and a forge hammer, restored to working order along the canal that crosses the village. This site bears witness to the central role of water, iron, timber and the labour of the inhabitants in the economy of the Pays d'Allevard over several centuries. In La Ferrière as in Pinsot, the housing keeps its mountain-village character, with traditional stone buildings clustered around the hamlets and more isolated farms climbing towards the mountain pastures, up to the hamlet of Fond de France, the starting point towards the lakes and the ridges of Belledonne.
Le Haut-Bréda is a new municipality, created on 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former municipalities of La Ferrière and Pinsot, which became delegated municipalities. Set in the Belledonne range, at the head of the Bréda valley, upstream of Allevard, the two villages have long shared the same mining history and the same local area. The municipality gives access to the Le Pleynet ski resort, one of the three resorts of the Sept Laux area along with Prapoutel and Pipay, laid out on the slopes left by the former Bréda glacier. Today, Le Haut-Bréda remains a rural mountain municipality, turned towards four-season tourism as much as towards the valley's farming and forestry.
Le Haut-Bréda has 456 inhabitants according to INSEE (France's national statistics institute). The municipality is still dominated by mountain houses and chalets, spread between the hamlets of La Ferrière and Pinsot and the outlying properties climbing the slopes of the Belledonne range. The proximity of the Le Pleynet resort and the Sept Laux area explains a marked presence of second homes, alongside the dwellings occupied year-round by families and workers attached to the valley. Buyers look here for an authentic mountain setting, between preserved nature and access to the ski slopes, whether as a main residence for mountain lovers or as a base for holiday stays.
The average price recorded in Le Haut-Bréda stands at 2 200 €/m², based on the sales registered with notaries and published in the DVF database. This figure brings together varied mountain properties, houses and chalets for the most part. The type of property, its floor area, its condition, its altitude and its proximity to the Le Pleynet resort explain most of the gaps around this average, all the more so as the number of annual sales in the municipality remains limited. For a reliable valuation, it is better to rely on sales of comparable properties than on the municipal average alone.
Le Haut-Bréda has no station on its territory. From Grenoble, access is through the Grésivaudan valley then by the road that climbs the Bréda valley from Allevard, up to the hamlets of La Ferrière and Pinsot, then towards the altitudes of the Le Pleynet resort. This mountain road, sometimes snow-covered in winter, remains the only road access to the municipality, which no major route crosses. This relative remoteness shapes a mountain property market, away from the flows of the Grenoble conurbation.
Le Haut-Bréda occupies the head of the glacial valley of the Bréda, framed by the summits of the Belledonne range. The villages of La Ferrière and Pinsot have kept their character as mountain settlements, with a preserved industrial heritage such as the museum of Forges and Mills in Pinsot. The environment remains marked by forest, mountain pastures and the presence of the Le Pleynet ski resort, which opens access to the Sept Laux area. This setting suits buyers looking for nature and quiet, with direct access to mountain activities all year round.
The Haut-Bréda market is very largely dominated by mountain houses and chalets, the supply of apartments remaining marginal in this small rural municipality. Buying a house matches the dominant profile of the valley, often with a plot and direct access to the hamlets or the mountain pastures. The few apartments are found mainly in the developments linked to ski tourism, closer to the Le Pleynet resort. Your choice will depend above all on your use, main residence or holiday stays, and on your budget.
Le Haut-Bréda is organised around the two former villages of La Ferrière and Pinsot, each with its centre and its hamlets scattered through the valley, such as Fond de France upstream. The areas closest to the Le Pleynet resort attract demand linked to skiing, while the hamlets lower down the valley keep a more rural and permanent profile. Each area has its own altitude, sunshine and road access, criteria to examine closely according to your plans and the time of year you intend to use the property.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).